Cooley High

But this is the great Glenn Turman.

You know him from everything from Cooley High to Ma Rainey's Black Bottom.

To The Colonel in a Different World.

Thank you, yes.

For me, you left out, you got to be older.

Cooley High is a tremendous movie.

Cooley High.

Let me tell you a sneaky great movie that you may not have seen.

Arlington Road.

He then restaged that for television, which was sort of his introduction to directing for screen.

His early films included Cooley High, Car Wash, and Which Way is Up.

He had a real knack for discovering talent.

He directed the first film appearances of a lot of folks who went on to have notable careers, like Denzel Washington, I want to say Samuel L. Jackson.

Exactly.

And, you know, the same, like I've seen Cooley High and Across 112th Street.

There's, you know, there's there's definitely films that that I enjoyed in the genre.

But you're right.

Definitely not.

You seen Cooley High?

Yeah.

He didn't get backdoored, though.

Mm-hmm

... 1990, Cooley High-

Mm-hmm

...

It's full of laughs and life, and it was the first movie by a Black director shown at the Cannes Film Festival.

Schultz also directed Cooley High, episodes of the TV series Black-ish, so fun, and All American, just to name a few.

And with me now to kiki about bringing this episode back is our own executive producer, Hayley Sperling.

Hey, Hayley.

So we're gonna talk about that, get into it now in the sense that four of your hit movies are being featured in the UW Cinema Tech spring offerings.

Um, so people can find your works, and this is in partnership with the Sunday Cinema Tech at the Chazen series, their once-a-month screenings.

You're best known for Cooley High, uh, and that was up first in January, and the next up is Car Wash, and followed by that is Livin' Large and The Last Dragon.

And so I wanna [laughs] start with the Car Wash from 1976.

I wish people would request stuff like that, you know?

Yeah, like somebody give us "Cooley High", you know? Give us-

Yeah, I-

Give us, uh-